#ear

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#hugs #illusion #knows #loneliness #lonely

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#fear #head #heart #how #i

I don't think this show would have come to me 10 years ago. It continues to be this wonderful miracle. ↗

— Stephen Collins

#come #continues #i #me #miracle

The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it. ↗

— Stephen Collins

#best #daughter #expecting #fact #humor

It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth. ↗

— Susan Collins

#childbirth #during #ensure #first #following

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#dumb #heard #i #life #most

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#bliss #dwell #heart #i #makes

One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears. ↗

— Michael Flanders

#anything #because #being #dears #else

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#almost #angeles #back #between #close

[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority. ↗

— Walter Karp

#homeschool #learning #school #education